What makes SRD so special?

Post by **Lord Foul** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:03 am

The fact doesn't really need to be defended, it's more like it may be interesting to hear opinions.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 1:55 am

I'd like to hear your opinions, Foul.

Post by **Holsety** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:15 pm

He created Lord Foul, Lord Mhoram, Covenant and Covenant Jr., Cail, Aliantha, Wayfriend, Vain, and many other KW users! He also created the site Kevin's Watch!

(Actually I'm not sure if there's a "Covenant" on this forum)

Website · Post by **Iolanthe** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:21 pm

He writes in such a way that makes me really care about his characters - even Linden

Somehow they are more than just people in a book. Not so sure about Angus though

Post by **Morning** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:18 pm

Only writer in the world I've found who can make a character say "ouch" throughout fifty pages, and I mean not the slightest hint of irony here as for this being the reason I hold TCTC as the fantasy series of my lifetime.

Post by **sgt.null** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 6:50 am

Holsety wrote:
(Actually I'm not sure if there's a "Covenant" on this forum)

there is/was a Covenant jr...

Post by **danlo** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:05 pm

Post by **sgt.null** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:26 pm

danlo wrote:test

did i pass?

Post by **Cheval** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 3:11 am

Who else, besides a select few, has written different styles of series novels?
Fantasy (TCoTC), Sci-Fi (The Gap), and Mystery (The Man Who...).
And on Best Seller lists?

'nuff said

Post by **Cagliostro** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 11:34 am

I'd say he is a guy who has the ending in mind, and everything else builds up to that. Which seems rare in the world of writing. Most authors I have read start off well, build well, and then it just ends. Or it just rambles on until it stops.

Post by **Unfettered One** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 3:14 pm

I think it's because he build characters you can relate to, put them in situations too fantastic for them to deal with, deals with emotions in a real way, and ultimately shows the resilience of the human spirit.

Post by **sgt.null** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 7:26 am

Cheval wrote:Who else, besides a select few, has written different styles of series novels?
Fantasy (TCoTC), Sci-Fi (The Gap), and Mystery (The Man Who...).
And on Best Seller lists?

'nuff said

Robert E Howard.

Sat Apr 27, 2013 12:05 am

It's amazing what SRD can do in 500 pages, vs 1400 pages of rambling and ponderous crap about troop movements and camping in the woods. The Quest for the Staff of Law just went from Morinmoss to the Plains of Ra and Mount thunder in like 2 chapters, yet none of it was rushed?

If this was Wheel of Time that would be 4 books.

Plus all the things other people said in this thread, I really do care about the characters, and I don't fault them at all (Hi2uLinden) when they do something that is a mix of utter idiocy on the character's end, and cheap plot contrivance on the writer's end, because even that he does so well, and you are so invested up to that point already...

All that being said, would anyone agree with me that he has a very unfortunate and pretty terrible taste in names? I mean, this just proves that even the Creator, Foul, and SRD have blind spots and failings.

Post by **wayfriend** » Sat Apr 27, 2013 10:21 pm

Interzone wrote:"The essence of Donaldson's artistry--and the key to his success--is his ability to construct narrative crescendos that build and build and keep on building, unremittingly, until they have reached a pitch which no composer of texts has ever attained before."

Not my words, but I cannot figure out how to say it better than that.

Post by **wayfriend** » Sat Apr 27, 2013 10:21 pm

Interzone wrote:"The essence of Donaldson's artistry--and the key to his success--is his ability to construct narrative crescendos that build and build and keep on building, unremittingly, until they have reached a pitch which no composer of texts has ever attained before."

Not my words, but I cannot figure out how to say it better than that.